11th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought
North Central College, Naperville, IL
May 1-2, 2015
Friday, May 1
1:00-2:30 The Virtues of Mengzi (Chair: Aaron Stalnaker)
- Dobin Choi (State University of New York, Buffalo): “Mengzi’s Maxim on Self-Cultivation for Righteousness in 2A2”
- John Ramsey (Scripps College): “Are the Fruit of Duan of the Same Species? Mengzian Virtues as Heterogenous”
- Franklin Perkins (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): “Five Conducts (Wu xing 五行), Mengzi, and the Way of Heaven”
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15 Daoism in the Post-Qin Era (Chair: Michael Ing)
- Ori Tavor (University of Pennsylvania): “More than Human: Sagacity and Bio-spiritual Technologies of Enhancement in the Huainanzi”
- Judson Murray (Wright State University ): “Shenming 神明 in Han Dynasty Thought: An Ethical Reading of its Import”
- Stephen Walker (University of Chicago): “Guo Xiang’s Qiwulun—Philosophical and Philological Assessment”
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address
Donald Harper, University of Chicago
“Reading the Peking University Han Laozi Manuscript from the Perspective of Western Manuscript Studies and the New Philology”
Saturday, May 2
10:00-11:30 Practicing Confucian Ethics (Chair: Judson Murray)
- Thomas Radice (Southern Connecticut State University): “Performing Filial Piety in the Analects”
- Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana University, Bloomington): “Teacher-Student Relationships in the Mèngzi”
- Hagop Sarkissian (Baruch College): “Natural Daos, Diversity, and Moral Relativism”
11:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Value Conflict and the Pursuit of Ideals (Chair: Brian Hoffert)
- Dan Robins (University of Hong Kong): “The Way Without Crossroads Revisited”
- Michael Ing (Indiana University, Bloomington): “Irresolvable Value Conflicts in Confucian Thought”
- Michael Paradiso-Michau (North Central College): “The Mystery of Effortless Action”
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Contemporary Confucianism (Chair: Franklin Perkins)
- Larry G. Israel (Middle Georgia State College): “The Renaissance of Wang Yangming Studies in the People’s Republic of China”
- Cheryl Cottine (Oberlin College): “Social and Environmental Justice: What We Can and Cannot Learn from Early Confucian Texts”
- Samuel Cocks (University of Wisconsin La Crosse): “Wang Yangming and Being One with Inanimate Objects”
More information, including paper abstracts, available here.
Friday’s events will take place in the Harold and Eva White Activities Center (WAC), Fireside Lounge (upstairs)
325 E. Benton Avenue (#13 on the NCC Map)
Saturday’s events will take place in the Benedetti-Wherli Stadium (STAD)
455 S. Brainard Street (#40 on the NCC Map)